Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-11-Speech-2-124"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-01-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Constitution for Europe (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050111.10.2-124"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-01-11-Speech-2-1252
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexander Stubb2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this is a day of celebration for Europe and for the European Parliament. It has taken over 20 years to construct this Constitution but we are getting close. I will vote for this report and for the Constitution for three simple reasons. Firstly, this Constitution was prepared in an open and democratic way. I have been a civil servant for ten years and I have been involved in negotiating three intergovernmental conferences, including the Amsterdam Treaty, the Nice Treaty and this one. I can guarantee that had this been an intergovernmental conference from beginning to end, we would never have had this Constitution. But because we had a Convention, we most certainly got one. Secondly, this Constitution is a good thing. There are 448 reasons for it, all of which are in the Treaty as articles. There are three key issues: firstly, it makes the European Union more democratic; secondly, it makes it more effective and, thirdly, it makes it more understandable. Thirdly, I will vote for this report because it is very good. I urge anyone who has not read it from beginning to end to have a look at it, because it simplifies and clarifies the Treaty in a magnificent way. I wish to congratulate Mr Corbett and Mr Méndez de Vigo, who are both at present speaking on their mobile phones – I hope they are Nokias! – on their excellent report. If I were to bring up just one thing from the Treaty, it would be on external relations. Just reflecting on what happened in Asia we had had a president, a foreign minister, a common security policy, a defence system, a better crisis management system, then together we would have got much further. Finally, I would urge each and every Member to go home and defend this Treaty. That is most certainly what I will do."@en1
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